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INCLUSIVE SPORTS PROGRAMMES
Through its programmes and community engagement strategy, Rocks Lane showcases a commitment to creating a welcoming social environment for recreational and performance sport for residents in Hounslow and beyond. Rocks Lane’s soft play, mini multi sports, football, tennis, netball and padel programmes and facilities highlight a wide range of options which cater to the diverse needs of Hounslow, Richmond and Hammersmith & Fulham borough residents.
ROCKS LANE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
By utilising its partnerships with key community groups, educational institutions, sporting foundations, and organisations representing diverse communities, Rocks Lane showcases its commitment to engage with and listen to all sections of the community in identifying needs and ensuring its services are inclusive and equitable in design, planning, and delivery.
With partners across local schools, local authorities, businesses, charities, football clubs, sporting foundations, and national governing bodies, Rocks Lane yields unique access to a significantly large cross-section of the community and has used this opportunity to provide access to sports and community to all.
Rocks Lane has also taken steps to enable greater social and community engagement among Hounslow, Richmond and Hammersmith & Fulham residents through fundraising events for people suffering from the effects of the war in Ukraine, hosting a scheme to enable players to donate computers to Ukraine.
Rocks Lane has developed its clubhouse into an inclusive and welcoming family space, where parents can socialise and young children can play providing complimentary tea and coffee to soft play parents and carers.
These initiatives highlight Rocks Lane’s commitment to engaging and listening to the community and providing opportunities for Hounslow, Richmond and Hammersmith & Fulham residents to socialise and engage with one another.
School Sports Programme
Rocks Lane is committed to the school sports programme, which offers free use of the facilities to state schools during term time school hours and reduced court hire rates for introductory padel coaching for all schools to encourage participation.
Rocks Lane Padel is host to termly school padel taster events, free for state schools.
All children are provided with free padel camp vouchers for use in the half term holidays to encourage continued participation and progression
Rocks Lane Sports Trust
Rocks Lane Sports Trust
W4 Youth
Rocks Lane Sports Trust provides opportunities and spaces to improve wellbeing and life chances and is partnered with W4 Youth, which is a community youth project for young people in West London.W4 Youth is a community youth project providing 11-19 year olds a safe and social space to go to seven days per week.
Rocks Lane Sports Trust has supported the development of a new W4 Youth and Community Centre in Southfield Recreation Ground and other opportunities to enhance facilities available to the community.
In September 2023, alongside W4 Youth and Brentford FC Community Sports Trust, Rocks Lane co-organised a successful Community Fun Event. In October 2024, Rocks Lane Sports Trust and Rocks Lane Padel hosted a successful W4 Youth Community Padel Social.
Both events offered local residents the opportunity to ask questions and share feedback on development plans for Southfield Recreation Ground.
Events like these are a strong example of Rocks Lane’s efforts to build community resilience and engagement through cohesive events.
Rocks Lane’s partnership with W4 Youth has clear objectives around promoting wider economic benefits for the community, supporting disadvantaged communities to gain specific educational outcomes through sport, encouraging crime reduction, and engaging communities to strengthen their social network and sense of community identity.
HFEH Mind & Richmond Borough Mind
The Rocks Lane teams believe that sports, the outdoors and community, all go hand in hand in the support of mental health.
We have been putting our minds together to raise awareness of the services that Hammersmith, Fulham, Ealing and Hounslow Mind (HFEH Mind) and Richmond Borough Mind provides to tackle mental health stigmas and support those with mental health issues to become more active.
Barnes Community Association (BCA)
Rocks Lane Barnes are proud to support an organisation committed to making our village an even better place to live, work and play.
Shelter Community
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Shelter Community
Youth Community Home – Be, Learn, Live
Another close local partner of Rocks Lane is Shelter Community, a local youth community home providing affordable accommodation for young people and supporting young people to stay in education or training. With Shelter Community,
Rocks Lane has provided support for their Youth Community Home Project, hosts their weekly football matches.
Rocks Lane shares The Shelter Community’s mission, which is to be a community driven by hope, love and faith that creates a shelter and safe space for such young people with a vision to create homes and social environments for young people in which they can flourish and grow in their personal and social skills.
Rocks Lane’s partnership and support for organisations such as W4 Youth and Shelter Community demonstrates a shared vision to promote community resilience and social capital, as well as showcasing a commitment to promoting good relations between communities and groups in Hounslow and demonstrates the centre’s adherence to Hounslow’s Equal Opportunities and Human Rights Policies.
Rocks Lane Padel Corporate Collaboration
Local businesses and the Rocks Lane community benefit from corporate collaboration packages tailored to businesses to benefit staff, management and client health and wellbeing. They also provide team building opportunities to boost morale and productivity and to engage with Rocks Lane Padel events such as EPL and club tournaments to support the sport’s growth, providing rewarding opportunities for the next generation of padel players. Tailored packages also provide businesses with event participation, branding and networking opportunities.
Charity tournaments and events
Rocks Lane is host to numerous sporting charity tournaments and events as well as inclusive community events and initiatives.
Rocks Lane Community Engagement
Rocks Lane provides clear communication pathways to all customers, local residents and service users, with efforts taken to listen to the needs of those in the local area.
In its engagement with local community groups, Rocks Lane has demonstrated a close interest and responsiveness to the needs of local residents.
Rocks Lane collects survey feedback on a quarterly basis from participants in order to understand the perspective of users on key aspects of the provision, including: quality of experience, staffing, inclusion, as well as collecting qualitative feedback on what customers would like to see more or less of from the service, thus adding considerable value by connecting Rocks Lane more closely to the local community, providing insight into how participants are experiencing the different services, and informing of new policies and activities being developed in the future. The feedback surveys also provide insight into the more complex questions of service provision and community engagement, such as feelings of belonging, inclusion and equality.
